Doggie Treats And Haircuts – Do Something For Nothing!

Josh Coombes is a hairdresser with a huge salon: the streets of London!

According to the BBC, the 29-year-old has been giving free haircuts to homeless people for the past year. Photos of the results are posted on an Instagram account that has thousands of followers.

It’s part of a campaign by Josh and friends Matt Spracklen and Dave Burt, which is using the hashtag #DoSomethingforNothing, to encourage people to help others, any way they can.

Meanwhile in Oxford, pet shop owners handed out food and blankets to the hounds of the homeless, after being inundated with donations.

Grove Pet Shop owners Sam and Darren Nobbs asked people to start leaving donations for the pets of homeless people at their shop, near Wantage, and were thrilled at the huge response.

With such an influx of items, they and other volunteers walked around the city centre all day yesterday to speak to homeless people and hand out the donations to their dogs.

Sam Nobbs said it went brilliantly. She said: “We didn’t have a planned route so we just went out and we found two homeless men with dogs. Then we went to the O’Hanlon [Oxford Homeless Pathways] House and spoke to them and gave them some donations.”

“We made little packages and took about two or three dozen out, and gave them all away,” she added. “They had some dry food, wet food, a bag of treats and a toy in. We’re going to ask for more donations and then come out again in about a month, maybe this time earlier in the morning.”

It’s not all doom and gloom in the news, you know!